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by djoldman 6mo ago
> For those who get arrested due to colorimetric testing, “over 90% of people are taking a plea deal because they can’t afford to remain in jail and wait six months for laboratory tests,” Walsh said. This touches on a question to which I
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by djoldman 6mo ago
These themes have been going around and around for a while. One thing I've seen asserted: > What he demonstrated is that Claude can, with detailed supervision, produce a technically rigorous physics paper. What he actually demonstra
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by djoldman 6mo ago
I assume the CTU came up a lot at the dinner table, haha. Shrug clearly teachers are paid more than the median wage. There isn't much to argue there. Modeling wage/salary is pretty straightforward for the majority of jobs (weigh
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by djoldman 6mo ago
Oh for sure. Many people are surprised to learn how much more public teachers make than private teachers :) A ton of details that medians aren't showing. I was just mentioning why folks may be on different sides here. We should at leas
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by djoldman 6mo ago
Folks may talk past each other on this. Some people may say that nurses and teachers ARE NOT well-paid because those workers deserve to be paid more than they are. Some people may say that nurses and teachers ARE well-paid because they ar
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by djoldman 6mo ago
> ...the employees of Random House don’t need to be paid as much as the employees at Palantir, because Random House is perceived (by its employees) as fundamentally good, something that serves humanity, while Palantir designs software th
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by djoldman 6mo ago
"Showing 1 - 25 of 58891 posts" Seems to check out.
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by djoldman 6mo ago
The unfortunate situation is that self-driving vehicles need to be fantastically superior to human drivers to secure the public trust. Self-driving vehicles that are much better than human drivers aren't enough. It's similar to ma
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by djoldman 6mo ago
> Young people are consuming news less frequently than older people... > Young people are also less interested in news... Haven't the youth always consumed less news and been less interested? The question is if the current youth
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by djoldman 6mo ago
Fuel price varies dramatically with respect to geographic area. It seems reasonable to factor that in especially if geographic area is factored in to solar capacity.
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Stack Overflow (Beta)(beta.stackoverflow.com)
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by djoldman 6mo ago
I immediately thought of that move. This time I think the surcharge will stay until the war is concluded.
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by djoldman 6mo ago
This is the same as all the folks asking for and hawking quantized models. It doesn't matter if the parent model is GPT GOD mode mythos opus 100x Ultra. What matters is the performance of the quantized model.
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100 Prisoners Problem(en.wikipedia.org)
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by djoldman 6mo ago
> The bulk of the work is setting up experiments to test how well the AI generalizes to unseen data, debugging stochastic systems, and designing good metrics. In my experience, this is missing a big part of the work: confirming what the
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by djoldman 6mo ago
The issue here is semantics and definitions of words. "Crime" is far too broad a word for there to be an overwhelming consensus as to whether it's going up or down. That's the main issue. If Scott A. had said "actua
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by djoldman 7mo ago
For those like myself who wanted context: > Cox Communications v. Sony Music, 607 U.S.___ (2026), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the liability of an internet service provider for its subscribers engaging in copyright in
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by djoldman 7mo ago
> And you’ll have noticed I’m avoiding calling them “machines”. Machines follow visible, predictable processes that can be analyzed. Nor are they “programs”, following defined rules in a predictable fashion. They are programs and they fo
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Reward, Risk, and Regulation: American Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence [pdf](gallup.com)
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Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States(fred.stlouisfed.org)
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by djoldman 7mo ago
My guess is that folks with "deep blue" or mourning the potential loss of their programming "craft" do not feel that AI is "taking their craft" and making it categorically impossible to program the way they did
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The Robotic Tortoise and the Robotic Hare(tomtunguz.com)
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by djoldman 7mo ago
I can't recommend enough limiting JS to an allowlist. By default, I browse without JS. If I get to a website that I want to explore that requires JS, I turn it on with one click: https://github.com/maximelebreton/q
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by djoldman 7mo ago
Just spent a long time trying to find where you can download any of these weights. Is it open weight? If so, why isn't there just a straight link to the models?
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Special Commitment Center(en.wikipedia.org)
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US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement(reuters.com)
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by djoldman 7mo ago
This isn't the whole story. There's a lot of "legal" self-dealing going on where insurance companies essentially own providers and then pay the providers which allows the insurance companies to circumvent the medical los
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by djoldman 7mo ago
What's interesting is that there are probably people who could spend a year happily working with an AI "coworker" without knowing it was an AI, but then get upset and change their viewpoint after learning the truth.
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by djoldman 7mo ago
About the qanats: Unfortunately there has been a lot of short sighted planning with respect to water resources: https://e360.yale.edu/features/iran-water-drought-dams-qanat...
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by djoldman 7mo ago
As I've said before: "I don't need to care about privacy because I have nothing to hide" is trivially disproved: Humans arrive at conclusions about other humans based on information. Sometimes these conclusions are incor

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